From Daulat Baugh To Satguru Shlok

A special General Meeting of Daulat Baugh Co-operative Housing Society Ltd will be held on Saturday the 30th April 2011 at the mini auditorium, National college, Bandra(W) at 7:00 pm to transact the following business:   1 (a) Selection of Building/Developer for Redevelopment of Society building   (b) Authorization of the Managing Committee members to sign/execute documents in respect of the redevelopment.   Notes   Only members and in their absence their associates or joint members shall be entitled to attend and vote at the meeting. Members are not entitled to vote by proxy. Quorum for Special General Meeting shall be ¾ (i.e. 75 percent) of the total number of members of the society. If there is n quorum the meeting shall stand adjourned for half an hour, failing which the said meeting shall stand adjourned for eight days and the adjourned meeting shall stand dissolved assuming that members are not interested in the redevelopment of the society’s buildin...

The presentation took place at National college conference room on Saturday, 9th April 2011 at 7pm, 80% of the total members attended the meeting. Five short listed builders were invited for presentation, of which one builder “Midcity Group” did not turn up, and “Man Global” was not very informative but promised to provide all the information within a week. The remaining three builders were good in their presentation and had come prepared with all the details of the ammenties they had to offer us. 'Nagpal developers' plans to built three flats on each floor, while 'Parthesh developers' had a flower shaped building with six flats on each floor with enough ventilation in each house, and 'R.S. Builders' had L-shaped building with a common view of the green podium and a promise of high quality construction. The presentation consisted of the brief summary about their company, their completed projects, projects under constru...

The Power point presentation by developers has been arranged on 9th April 2011 at National college, conference room from 6:30 pm to 9:30 pm. Only Five developers will have the power points presentation whose names were mentioned in the earlier post. Each developer will have 20 minutes for their presentation and all have been invited at different time. there will be a gap of 10 minutes between each presentation. Snacks and drinks will also be provided by the society. After the presentation, society member can make their own judgement and decision, consult their family members, do their own research and can cast their vote for their selected builder in another meeting which will take place after one week. Things need to move on, and members are requested to attend it.

Following the legal way, according to 79(A) of the MCS Act 1960  clause 8 was followed. This scope of work initially for the architect/PMC shall be (a) to survey the land and building of the society (b) to get the details of the conveyance(c) to record the FSI of the plot available for the development and TDR/FSI that can be loaded taking into consideration the DC Regulations and other applicable law (d) to prepare workable/practical project report taking into consideration the recommendations/suggestions of the members, the areas of the new flats to be made available to the members, commercial area, vacant area, space for garden, parking, building specifications, etc. Within two months of date of appointment of the architect/PMC, his project report should be submitted to the committee. and the clause 15 The architect/PC should invite competitive bidding from reputed expert and experienced developers and at the time of floating members, either the carpet area or the corpus fund ...

For those of you who are still wondering why the process is so slow, this is the gentle reminder that society want to proceed as per law “MCS ACT 1960” Today the point 4 was completed that required Five architects/PMCs that are either on the “Government Panel” or “Panel of the local authority” should be short-listed for preparing project report. The architect/PMCs should give quotations of their charges. Members can also suggest, at least eight days prior to the meeting, names) along with quotations of the architects/PMCs, as also suggestions, recommendations for the redevelopment. Society selected Mr. Sumitra Shinde (approved by BMC) whose quotation was approved being the lowest, to be paid in two installments, who will prepare the project report of the building plan. Next step is to put advertisement in the paper TIO for city builders to submit their tenders for re-development plan. Once more, the members of the society were reminded that only authorized members...

I know, I know, it’s been 2 months already since we last had the building meeting although we were promised frequent meetings, but this is India and everything works at their own pace. Some of the members have given up hope of ever getting their building redeveloped. It takes too long. This year, there was too much rain and the situation of the building is getting worse. I don't think any house in the building is spared from damage. There is a big, deep fissure on the wall of block B and is quite deep now and needs serious repairs. Few weeks ago, the balconies of the building, which is at the end of our lane collapsed and the debris is still not cleared. Luckily, no body was hurt. But we are hoping that our building does not meet the same fate. Every time I see the block B, I am scare that it might come tumbling down. I only hope it does not. Anyways, next meeting is on 11th October at 7:30pm to approve and appoint a PMC (Project Management Consultant) as per guidelines f...

Today the meeting was called at 7’30 in the evening and more than 15 members attended the meeting. The main points that were discussed during this meeting was that the managing committee has decided to follow the rules and regulations and will follow to the point as stated in Section 79(A) MCS ACT 1960 so that if there is any litigation problem in future it can be tackled as per law. They have promised us transparency in every matter and have promised to work for the better of the society so that everybody is treated equal. The most important factor to look into right now is to appoint a project management consultant. They have taken the quotation of five architects and are open to suggestions from society members if they wish to recommend any other than the ones that have been narrowed down to five. They plan to appoint an advocate whom the society will pay from society fund who will guide each member during the re-development process. As per law, they made it very clear that o...

Early morning I received the circular from society announcing the meeting on Friday 23rd to discuss the redevelopment program. The managing committee has been meeting the builder, discussing the plan, trying to get the best deal for the members. They are thinking of appointing an advocate who will guide every member to safeguard their interest. Every word in the document has a hidden meaning which cannot be seen by unsuspecting member, with advocate’s help we will know the right laws before signing on a dotted line. Then society will also appoint a structural engineer who will supervise over the construction and make sure that the promised faculties are delivered so that there is no compromise on the quality of the building. We have selected Satguru who assured us quality or else there were many builders with better offers, so naturally we would want the best and with our own structural engineer and advocate, we safeguard that interest. There is money in the society which w...

Today we had general body meeting which was attended by sixteen members only. Its funny how members fail to show up for meetings, I have noticed that generally people attend society meeting only if they have a problem which they need to address, otherwise they are happy to ask their neighbors for updates. I don't like to miss the society meetings unless I am travelling, for me it is a social responsibility. Being a member of a society, we have right to information, and right to express our opinion such that the living in the society becomes a pleasant experience. Plus it gives us chance to get to know the members and drop off the veil of alien-like feelings. Anyways, the meeting started twenty minutes late, (waiting for late comers) and all the points on the agenda were discussed one by one.  The nomination forms were available in the society office, few days prior to the meeting, whereby any member desiring to be the part of the committee could send in their applicat...

Lets go for a drive......On 11th March 2010 at 730pm, togather we will go to see some presentations of Kamala builder. We have narrowed down to three builders.... Kamala, Satguru and Wadwa.....what do you think????